Here is a list of useful websites to help you with project ideas and understanding Skype. Many of the websites listed helped to create the idea for Chatting Around the World.
Chatting Across the USA This was the Google Doc created by Cherrie MacInnes. She was the main inspiration for this wiki.
Skype 'R US Andrew Fenstermaker took Cherrie's idea and created the idea of Skyping to all 50 states with his first graders.
Skype in the Classroom Official Skype education site. Sign up to get your Skype username. There are directions on how to use Skype as well as projects to participate in. If you have a project idea, please feel free to share it on this wiki and we can add it to our project list.
Chatting Across the USA
This was the Google Doc created by Cherrie MacInnes. She was the main inspiration for this wiki.
Skype 'R US
Andrew Fenstermaker took Cherrie's idea and created the idea of Skyping to all 50 states with his first graders.
Skype in the Classroom
Official Skype education site. Sign up to get your Skype username. There are directions on how to use Skype as well as projects to participate in. If you have a project idea, please feel free to share it on this wiki and we can add it to our project list.
Skype in Elementary Classroom
Gives an overview of the pros and cons of Skype in the classroom.
Chat with Barbara Bush
How one Paterson classroom and one Maine classroom used Skype in their classroom.